Fence



UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

DAVID SULVESTER HARTWELL, OF MARSEILLES, OHIO.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,034, dated March 2'7, 1888.

Application fil'cd August 13, 1887. Serial No. 246,869. (No model.)

To all whom it may conaern:

Be it known that I, DAVID SULvEsTER HARTWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marseilles, in the county of Wyandot and State of Ohio,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. My invention is an improvement in fences; and my said invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangement of the parts composing the same, as and for the purposes as will be hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

The object of this invention is to form a fence that will be strong and durable, yet light,and may be readily removed altogether, or any one or more of the panels removed without affecting the rest, and either split rails or sawed timber or poles may be used in its construction.

For a better understanding of the details of construction and arrangement of my invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a view in side elevation of a rod of fencing constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 an end elevation of the same.

To constructthe fence, I proceed as follows: At certain intervals of about eight feet two pieces, A A, are slightly sunk in the ground, at the proper distance from each other, and their top ends crossed and secured by a wire band, as a. The top rail, B, is now placed within the crotch of the posts A and a crosswire is run from one of said posts to the other as just above the ground, as at 0, whereby said posts are prevented from spreading and form the entire support for the fence. Upon this cross-wire O is now built up the fence-panel, which may be composed of the ordinary split rails or poles or sawed lumber, the rails D being so arranged that the upper series will set upwardlyin the lower crotch of the crossed pieces A, so that when the binding-wire Eis tightened it will bind the rails B and the upper rails of the series D in opposite directions in the upper and lower crotches of the pieces A, and thus securely'fasten the parts of the fence. These pieces D are arranged one directly above the other, with the ends of the pieces of the second panel resting uponthe top of the ends of the piecesof the first panel, as at d, Fig. 1, which adjacent ends of the fence-rails are' tapered to permit of their preserving a continuous horizontal position, as shown. Around these pieces D, and extending over the top rail, B, is placed a wire, E, whose lower ends are made fast to the horizontal cross-wire 0. Between each of the rails D and around the wire E are placed short pieces of wire, e, to clamp the wire E tight around each of the rails, as shown in Fig. 2.

At certain intervals along the fence-say every rodis arranged a diagonal brace, F, p

which enters the ground at one end and at its other is secured by a wire, f, around the top end of the pieces A. In addition to these braces a wind-break is also applied at certain intervals along the line of fencing, to still further brace and strengthen the same, which consists of a vertical post, G, let into the ground beside the fence, to which it is-secure'd at top and bottom by wire bands '9, Fig. 1.

A fence when constructed as herein shown and described is cheap and durable, may be made of scrap lumber or splittimber or small poles and pieces of wire, and be readily removed by cutting the wires. The rails all being secured together, they cannot be moved aside or raised by animals in endeavoring to pass the fence.

' Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows, viz:

The combination,with the crossed pieces A, having their lower ends sunk in the ground,

of the upper rails, B, resting in the upper crotches of said pieces, the lower rails, D, the

DAVID SULVESTER HARTWELL.

In presence of-- RoY VANATTA,

J. O. VANORSDALL.

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Patnted'Man- 27, 188 8.

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